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Eyebrows are being raised successful the governmental and bureaucratic circles implicit definite startling facts that person tumbled retired of the Central Bureau of Investigation-led (CBI) SIT’s complaint expanse successful the controversial ghee adulteration case.
Even arsenic the authorities is maintaining that definite caller players started supplying adulterated ghee to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) aft the ‘relaxation’ of the guidelines during the YSR Congress regime, it has been recovered that Harsh Fresh Dairy, a proxy of the Bhole Baba Dairy and named arsenic an accused, had supplied adulterated ghee to the TTD adjacent successful February 2019, erstwhile the TDP-led NDA was successful power.
The CBI’s study mentions that the Uttarakhand-based Harsh Fresh Dairy had created fake documentation way and inspection reports by colluding not lone with the little unit successful the TTD’s procurement wing, but besides with the outer dairy experts assigned by the TTD to inspect their premises.
By offering to proviso ghee astatine ₹291 per kg, the institution emerged arsenic the L1 and got its archetypal declaration to proviso ghee successful tins to the TTD mode backmost successful February 2019.
Though the declaration was awarded to proviso 82,000 kg, the dairy was alleged to person supplied a substance of thenar oil, thenar kernel lipid mixed with chemicals astatine that time.
Similarly, Premier Agri Foods, based successful Bareilly of Uttar Pradesh, which has been supplying ghee to the TTD since 2013, is besides accused by the CBI of akin charges.
“While the information is that these companies person been supplying adulterated ghee to the TTD adjacent during the erstwhile TDP regime, the aforesaid enactment is present trying to hoodwink the nationalist that the adulterated ghee proviso started lone aft relaxation of rules during the YSRCP authorities (2019-2024). The CBI study has wholly negated the ruling party’s view”, observes TTD’s erstwhile president and YSRCP territory president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy.
“After getting disqualified during the YSRCP regime, Bhole Baba Dairy chose its proxies to way the adulterated ghee erstwhile again into the TTD,” the CBI probe has unearthed.
The 4 tankers of ghee, which were recovered by the NDDB arsenic adulterated, besides recovered their mode into the TTD done the proxy dairies successful July-Aug 2024, instantly aft the TDP came to powerfulness again.
“Though the procurement rules were tightened successful 2023, the proxies continued to proviso ghee to the TTD done connivance with the departmental staff,” the complaint expanse has noted, indicating that the enactment successful powerfulness hardly mattered for the colluding parties.
However, the TTD’s spot committee subordinate G. Bhanuprakash Reddy says the temple room workers engaged successful Laddu accumulation complained astir the odour emanating from the ‘ghee’, which was brushed speech by the past spot board. Similarly, helium wants the probe to get deeper to find the ‘key beneficiaries’ down Chinna Appanna, the erstwhile PA of the TTD’s ex-chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy. The complaint expanse has so recovered kickbacks transferred into Appanna’s account, but Mr. Bhanuprakash wants the ‘extended trail’ to beryllium exposed.
“When the study has notation of Hawala transactions, it is clip for the Enforcement Directorate to instrumentality implicit and delve heavy into the case,” helium adds.
